Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 25
I have broken the statue that was to stand at the center of the table.
Who acts: I, statue · What happens: break, be · To what, where: statue, center
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, statue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 broken | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 broken | aux |
| 3 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 statue | det |
| 5 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broken | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 stand | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stand | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stand | mark |
| 9 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 statue | acl:relcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 center | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 center | det |
| 12 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stand | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 table | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 table | det |
| 15 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 center | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · perfect | I | the statue | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer statue=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the statue | the statue not said here | the center of the table | stand property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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